Going Beyond Volunteering
Last Wednesday, the Washington Post covered the release of a new report issued by the Corporation for National and Public Service, indicating that volunteer rates are on the rise, especially among...
View ArticlePersonal and Social Responsibility As Part of Liberal Education—Sending a...
As college students move from their first to final year, their belief that their campus should focus on contributing to a larger community is stable and strong, but their assessment of whether their...
View ArticleCivic Knowledge and Engagement: Aren’t Both Essential?
In recent postings, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) raises the specter that civic literacy—defined as knowledge of the answers on the U.S. citizenship test—is lacking among today’s...
View ArticleSustainability—An Issue for Both Student Learning and Campus Planning?
The 2010 edition of the College Sustainability Report Card was released last week and provides additional evidence that colleges and universities are taking seriously the challenges of community,...
View ArticleLessons in Democracy—In Wisconsin, in the Middle East, in Maryland, and on...
I’m sure many of you are as transfixed as I am by the demonstrations in the Middle East and in Madison, Wisconsin. While spurred by very different circumstances and motivations, both are compelling...
View ArticleDemocracy’s Future: Civic Engagement and Structural Reform
By David Hubert, Professor of Political Science and ePortfolio Director, Salt Lake Community College It’s the first day of AAC&U’s Annual Meeting and I’m already bleary-eyed. Yesterday afternoon I...
View ArticleIncreasing College Completion Rates: It’s About More than Economic Benefits
By Peter Ewell, Vice President at the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems Increasing the proportion of young citizens with a college credential has become a major national goal, and...
View ArticleTeach the Vote: Student Learning and Voter Engagement
Earlier this summer the US Supreme Court excised Section 5, a major piece of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that sets up the framework for the act’s provision of equitable voting practices in certain...
View ArticleWhat Do We Mean by Engagement?
By: David Brakke, Dean, College of Science and Mathematics, James Madison University During the conference, engaged or engagement were used in many forms. The words by themselves become...
View ArticleCollaboration, Part 2
By: Donna Heiland, Vice President and Special Assistant to the President, Emerson College In my last post, I wrote that collaboration was a watchword of AAC&U’s 2014 Annual Meeting, and it was. I...
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